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The full entry list for Formula 2’s post-season test at Yas Marina Circuit, which marks the last official outing of the Dallara F2 2018 car, has been published.
There are 12 drivers who have already had their places on the 2024 grid confirmed, and all of them will be in action over the next three days. These includes rookies such as Formula Regional Europe champion Andrea Kimi Antonelli, who will be jumping up the single-seater ladder with Prema, FIA Formula 3 champion Gabriel Bortoleto with Virtuosi Racing and his title rival Zak O’Sullivan at ART Grand Prix.
Antonelli will be partnered this week by Ollie Bearman, who is set to spend a second season with Prema after winning four races and coming sixth in the standings as a rookie this year, and ART GP is running Victor Martins who one won race but was the top-scoring rookie of the 2023 F2 season as he finished fifth in the standings.
Other teams with one vacancy to fill for 2024 include DAMS, which is running Juan Manuel Correa in testing, and PHM Racing which has its 2023 driver Joshua Mason continuing in his car for this week.
There are three teams who are yet to sign any drivers for next season, so will be using testing to assess multiple candidates for their seats. It will be of limited use however since F2 introduces a new car in 2024, and teams will not get to do shakedown tests with it until early next year.
Hitech GP is running Paul Aron, who came third in the FIA F3 Championship as a rookie this year, and F2 sophomore Amaury Cordeel. Van Amersfoort Racing has Enzo Fittipaldi, who took a win en route seventh in the F2 standings, and its FIA F3 driver Rafael Villagomez, and Trident will run Euroformula champion and FIA F3 race-winner Oliver Goethe in one car then have F2 race-winner Richard Verschoor driving the sister car for two days before handing over to F3 racer Christian Mansell.
Each day of the test will feature six hours of running, split equally into the morning and afternoon, and Pirelli’s soft and medium compound tyres will be available to use.
F2 post-season testing entry list
| No. | Driver | Team | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Dennis Hauger | MP Motorsport | 8th in F2 |
| #2 | Franco Colapinto | MP Motorsport | 4th in FIA F3 |
| #3 | Zane Maloney | Rodin Carlin | 10th in F2 |
| #4 | Ritomo Miyata | Rodin Carlin | Super Formula champion |
| #5 | Zak O’Sullivan | ART Grand Prix | 2nd in FIA F3 |
| #6 | Victor Martins | ART Grand Prix | 5th in F2 |
| #7 | Andrea Kimi Antonelli | Prema | FREC champion |
| #8 | Ollie Bearman | Prema | 6th in F2 |
| #9 | Paul Aron | Hitech GP | 3rd in FIA F3 |
| #10 | Amaury Cordeel | Hitech GP | 20th in F2 |
| #11 | Jak Crawford | DAMS | 13th in F2 |
| #12 | Juan Manuel Correa | DAMS | 19th in F2 |
| #14 | Gabriel Bortoleto | Virtuosi Racing | FIA F3 champion |
| #15 | Kush Maini | Virtuosi Racing | 11th in F2 |
| #16 | Joshua Duerksen | PHM Racing | 16th in FRegional Middle East |
| #17 | Joshua Mason | PHM Racing | 23rd in F2 |
| #20 | Richard Verschoor | Trident | 9th in F2 |
| #20 | Christian Mansell | Trident | 12th in FIA F3 |
| #21 | Oliver Goethe | Trident | 8th in FIA F3 |
| #22 | Enzo Fittipaldi | Van Amersfoort Racing | 7th in F2 |
| #23 | Rafael Villagomez | Van Amersfoort Racing | 25th in FIA F3 |
| #24 | Isack Hadjar | Campos Racing | 14th in F2 |
| #25 | Pepe Marti | Campos Racing | 5th in FIA F3 |